cloth是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (一块) 布， 织物， 衣料，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That's she, back there upon the pony," said Maryann; "wi' her face a-covered up in that black cloth with holes in it."
-- So they all entered, and the cloth of the tent, to the eyes of an observer on the outside, became bulged into innumerable pimples such as we observe on a sack of potatoes, caused by the various human heads, backs, and elbows at high pressure within.
-- The strange luminous semi-opacities of fine autumn afternoons and eves intensified into Rembrandt effects the few yellow sunbeams which came through holes and divisions in the canvas, and spirted like jets of gold-dust across the dusky blue atmosphere of haze pervading the tent, until they alighted on inner surfaces of cloth opposite, and shone like little lamps suspended there.
-- She was leaning back, sipping a cup of tea that she held in her hand, and the owner of the male voice was Boldwood, who had apparently just brought the cup to her, Bathsheba, being in a negligent mood, leant so idly against the canvas that it was pressed to the shape of her shoulder, and she was, in fact, as good as in Troy's arms; and he was obliged to keep his breast carefully backward that she might not feel its warmth through the cloth as he gazed in.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The proprietor and two clerks stood on thesidewalk with armfuls of bolts of cotton cloth they had been displaying.
-- It was almost impossible to obtain these small luxuries now ladies were wearing hand-whittled wooden hairpins and covering acrons with cloth for buttons and Pitty lacked themoral stamina to refuse them.
-- Oh, if only I had enough cloth for britches too!"
-- A correspondence had sprung up between them and, learning that Melaniehad a husband at the front, the mother had sent her the length of gray cloth and brass buttons which she had bought forher dead son.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She held the head of her stick against her heart as she stood looking at the table; she in her once white dress, all yellow and withered; the once white cloth all yellow and withered; everything around in a state to crumble under a touch.
-- That I got them off, closed with her, threw her down, and got them over her; that I dragged the great cloth from the table for the same purpose, and with it dragged down the heap of rottenness in the midst, and all the ugly things that sheltered there; that we were on the ground struggling like desperate enemies, and that the closer I covered her, the more wildly she shrieked and tried to free herself,--that this occurred I knew through the result, but not through anything I felt, or thought, or knew I did.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The little tailor at last lost all patience, and drew a piece of cloth from the hole under his work-table, and say-ing: 'Wait, and I will give it to you,' struck it mercilessly on them.
-- The wise woman said: 'There is some enchant-ment behind it, listen very early some morning if anything is moving in the room, and if you see anything, no matter what it is, throw a white cloth over it, and then the magic will be stopped.'
-- Swiftly he sprang towards it, and threw a white cloth over it.
-- Then she felt for the little piece of wood; but when she un-wrapped the cloth it was not there, and she saw she had lost the gift of the good stars.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She made me seven shirts, and some other linen, of as fine cloth as could be got, which indeed was coarser than sackcloth; and these she constantly washed for me with her own hands.
-- The girl had lined it on all sides with the softest cloth she 118 Gulliver's Travelscould get, well quilted underneath, furnished it with her baby's bed, provided me with linen and other necessaries, and made everything as convenient as she could.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She darted forward and slashed at the dog with a white cloth she held in her hand, then came forward to Connie.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The baking-dish was served up in a penitential manner on a shrunken cloth at an end of the dining-table, at two o'clock, when he dined with Mr Flintwinch, the new partner.
-- A piece of red cloth with which that phantom had been stiffened in its lifetime was now laid bare, and poked itself up, at the back of the old man's neck, into a confusion of grey hair and rusty stock and buckle which altogether nearly poked his hat off.
-- His trousers were so long and loose, and his shoes so clumsy and large, that he shuffled like an elephant; though how much of this was gait, and how much trailing cloth and leather, no one could have told.
-- A clean cloth was spread before him, with knife, fork, and spoon, salt-cellar, pepper-box, glass, and pewter ale-pot.
-- There was the hotel with its gateway, and its savoury smell of cooking; there was the cafe with its bright windows, and its rattling of dominoes; there was the dyer's with its strips of red cloth on the doorposts; there was the silversmith's with its earrings, and its offerings for altars; there was the tobacco dealer's with its lively group of soldier customers coming out pipe in mouth; there were the bad odours of the town, and the rain and the refuse in the kennels, and the faint lamps slung across the road, and the huge Diligence, and its mountain of luggage, and its six grey horses with their tails tied up, getting under weigh at the coach office.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Wrapping myself in my shaggy jacket of the cloth called bearskin, I fought my way against the stubborn storm.
-- When he entered I observed that he carried no umbrella, and certainly had not come in his carriage, for his tarpaulin hat ran down with melting sleet, and his great pilot cloth jacket seemed almost to drag him to the floor with the weight of the water it had absorbed.
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